skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we’d see acquired practices lowering their prices and competing more aggressively due to their better cost structure

Introducing a new fixed cost into a market should not be expected to increase competitiveness. It almost always reduces it. The trade-off with regulation is that trade-off is worth it.

Put another way: if you are a $50mm practice, and it suddenly becomes infeasible to run anything smaller than $40mm, your market power increases. You have less competition.
I think we can all agree that instead of using a Raspberry Pi, you should use a computer you found in a dumpster somewhere.
I blame this mostly on the mortgage as an investment trend. Probably goes back to the 1980's savings and loan crash which one of the Bush brothers had a big hand in.

As I have told people in the past, we are heading towards a new serfdom type economy where either you inherit your property or you are a serf paying most of your income to property holders.

Already I have seen articles stating the US Gov is concerned that young people are not moving to other regions of the country as they did 25 - 30 years ago. They articles indicated people moving is in a slow downward spiral. Another indication of a serfdom environment.
Taking a privacy policy at its word is not really "protecting privacy", in my opinion. It's just thinking that as long as they pinky-swear, then there is no privacy issue.

Even if the company intends on adhering to the policy, the policy does nothing to protect against that company itself being hacked.

It still represents a risk.
Because industrial space needs room for very large machines, which means large volumes and good access to them.

Office cubicle farms around a services core are made up of small volumes and poor access.
~700ms cold on a 7800X3D - maybe its time to upgrade my laptop.
I agree with the befuddlement aspect that makes the mind rummage on it from time to time long after watching the movie. It's an incomplete resolution that causes us to think about the movie. It could be frustrating at times but I guess that's the whole point.
My only point was that people were reacting to future versions of a confidential product as if we know. I didn’t contradict myself by saying “obviously they are working on new versions.”

My point was that we have no idea what the new versions are.
Dial devices by ED key with iroh-DNS
You're on a forum with literally millions of visitors from all over the world, but with comments on any given article from maybe 100 people.

There could be tens of thousands of "rail against smart tv" users and tens of thousands of "drool over smart cars" users, without there being even a single hypocritical poster who was in both groups.
My understanding is that with CAD software you can go backwards and have (near?) infinite edit history, in a way you cannot with Blender. Which makes it very, very useful.
Or the city could just invoke eminent domain, buy it at a very low price if the owner can’t demonstrate it having a high market price, restore the building and democratically choose an equitable process to rent it or sell it, hopefully favoring existing citizens.

But of course, we’d have to be a lot more aggressive about invoking eminent domain for this to be effective. To that end, it would make sense to also establish policies ensuring it’s easy to invoke it fairly and transparently - ie, easily allowing other parties to bid against the city for higher prices in cases where eminent domain is to be used this way (stipulating that those parties also take measures to restore the building, etc).
With the amount of overlapping vocabulary, I would've thought airplanes are basically just ships in the sky. Ports, captains, boarding, etc.

Or are these used metaphorically, like virtual computer stuff versus physical office stuff (desktop, folder, etc.) where there's enough similarity to avoid making new words but they're operated quite differently?
It was all the fault of this one guy not doing his job. Also, it's just a coincidence that we fired his peers who were doing their jobs, and that the one who went to the feds was found dead in his car recently.
Device A sends a request to the STUN server. STUN server responds with the public IP address, port and other NAT details that it is able to see. Device A forwards this info to device B, and periodically sends keepalive packets so the connection remains active. Device B is now able to hit device A's public IP/port directly (the router/firewall thinks that the packets are coming from the STUN server).

If the NAT is more restrictive then a TURN server can act as a middleman to relay the packets between device A and device B.
How is beer free? I never understood that
In what regard has gamepass failed? I keep hearing nothing but excitement about it? Does it lose a lot of money?

Similarly, how did they trash the Xbox brand? I've always been a PlayStation or Nintendo user so my view is quite tainted here.
Was going to crack some joke about their work, but then realized that this tech is absolutely monetizible. Hook it up to, say, Nespresso marketing machine and this will sell like hotcakes.
Developed world is in denial of the rapid population growth. Developed countries just don't build enough.
If the project is anyway eventually going to be deprecated and shutdown, maybe it's better to take one of the Google bike and go round the campus drinking one of these tasty granitas from the cafeteria.
There’s a middle ground to be struck here. CanIUse is a very frequently cited web development tool, if you’re not a web developer you might not know of it and that’s absolutely fine. I don’t think every web site has to assume the user has been offline for ten years before getting to the meat of their purpose.
A single big live service game like Fortnite captures the player time that would have otherwise gone into a dozen AA games, per year.

So there is no gap in available player time, as it's impossible for there to be more than 24 hours of demand per day.
Price's Law: Square root law of people and productivity
One thing I have never quite understood is the desire for housing prices to constantly go up.

Even a current homeowner might want to move one day, and if house prices uniformly fell by 50% relative to current earnings, they would find themselves more able to upgrade their house. The only people it would hurt would be people moving from owned accommodation to rented accommodation or cheaper owned accommodation.

What am I misunderstanding here?

EDIT: It seems I was forgetting a key fact: mortgages. When people hold a mortgage and their property value goes down, they can be left holding the bag.
This is awesome in an overengineered way, but if you want to make cold brew the normal way it's very easy. Basically you make it using a cafetière/French press/Bodum[1] using cold tap water in the fridge overnight (probably put some cling film over it), then press it and run it through a drip filter. The secret (if there is one) is to use fine ground coffee like you would use for an espresso rather than coarse ground (like you would use for a normal drip coffee or French press). It's very easy and very lovely. Just don't skimp on coffee.

More detailed recipe here https://www.uncarved.com/articles/cold-brew/

[1] UK/US/French name but you know the thing with the plunger
This goes hand-in-hand with the idea of using "boring" technology. If it's mission critical, I'd rather be using something battle-tested than the brand-new hot tech. There's re tooling, more documentation and likely more search-able solutions to whatever problems you may run into.
That depends a lot on what you want to use it for. A Z80 can stream data to/from RAM at several hundred kilobytes a second, do binary search at tens of kilobytes per second, or calculate hundreds of floating point values a second with a softfloat library.

For basic word processing on a terminal, that is fast enough to support potentially dozens of simultaneous users. There were a number of software packages in the 1980s that would run a virtual machine interpreter, providing a multitasking multiuser environment with integrated high level languages, databases, office applications, etc. on 8-bit microprocessor hardware. Also plenty fast for a print server or similar, at that time. But, on the other hand, the 64 KB address space isn't really enough to fit even a basic optimizing compiler.
Whether or not AI has more meat to it than crypto isn't really relevant to the point. The point is that a whole bunch of sketchy people have shifted to "AI" and that brings more suspicion to the field.

Just so people don't misunderstand: I'm not saying that everyone into crypto was/is sketchy. I'm saying that crypto attracts a lot of sketchy people, so the percentage is much higher than in the general population.
Apple Announces New iPad Pro with M4, OLED Display, and More
In some countries you can still buy prepaid cards which don't required any registration etc. and can be used across the entire EU anonymously.
A simple note: why people should want to live there? If there is no more work in cities except for city services, witch happen to be more and more bound to some bigger/external entities, so no real margins to evolve for any local company, why be there?

Yes, there are many desperate enough to flock anywhere if they see a possible accommodation, but how can they survive locally?

After the '80s logistic revolution and then TLC/IT progress finally making offices useless in cities there is no viable economy anymore. The new right density for the economy of scale are single-family homes and small buildings spread enough to have room to change but not too far, intermixed with homes enough to avoid the US suburbs error. We can't have a new deal in dense cities.

P.v. works best for self-consumption only and we heading toward cheap enough batteries to make almost-autonomous homes the norm in a large slice of the inhabited world (30kWh capacity per home at minimum), we can collect and store and clorate enough water to make semi-autonomous homes and various shops. It start to be cheaper than creating large aqueducts. We start to being able to treat sewers enough to been able to have local treatment instead of a sewerage network, we are not there, but near enough. The world change and we have to change accordingly meaning we can't keep up the immense infra we have made for cities while people move around to escape too frequently flooded areas, too hot areas and so on. We need infra for industries, and many industries need a certain size to be viable, but the trend it's clear we need to produce modern way to live less and less dependent on complex services existing on ground networks. We still need roads, personal air mobility and last-mile air mobility is still far despite certain claims https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/dfu/uam-full-... but we know where we should go. Smart cities can't work like the old Fordlandia can't. Classic cities already not work anymore, so we do not have other options so far and we need to evolve anyway.
Not my area of expertise — can somebody clarify if the DHCP server runs on your router, or your local machine? The article keeps mentioning it needs to be on the “same network” but the graphic seems like it’s all on one device.

edit: ahh I’m dumb, it’s the router (correct me if I’m wrong!). So as others have said, you have to already be on a compromised network, yes?
Apple Announces New M2 iPad Air Models in 11-Inch and 13-Inch Sizes from $599
Long-term self calibration; you can see how they got there.
Didn't like Deathloop?
I don't think it's pedantic, semantics are absolutely necessary for talking about this kind of thing precisely. I use the word perception to describe certain mental phenomena that we take as usually occurring in response to stimuli: sights, smells, etc. I'm not certain I totally understand your definition, but it sounds like you use the term to describe a type of process where sensory organs and the brain interact with the rest of the physical world to create mental phenomena—the same phenomena that I would call a perception. So because there aren't actual objects interacting with the sensory organs, then direct neural stimulation of the brain isn't a perception under your definition.

I can see where you are coming from with the idea that you could trigger those neural changes through some other process. It's an interesting idea, and I wonder if it could be true in practice somehow. Regardless, I'd still argue that you are manipulating the brain in one way or another to create a firsthand experience of seeing the color red. If you can explain redness fully in terms of physical systems and processes, then somebody having that firsthand experience for the first time shouldn't be thinking "oh, so that's what it is like to actually see red."

If these are purely physical processes, then that knowledge should have come along with your complete knowledge of all of physics. You should also know what it is like to have experiences that your brain doesn't have the hardware for, like a bat's experience of echolocation. It seems like an unfairly high bar to clear; how could you understand an experience without having it firsthand? But if you are committed to believing that conscious experience is a physical thing, then I think you are also committed to believing that it can be fully described in physical terms. Physicalists do have arguments that try to explain how you could pass that bar in theory or dodge the commitment altogether, but personally I think those arguments are pretty weak.
Which is the country their rules should follow?

Their flag?

Their company's residency?

Their production location?

Guess what, all are bought and sold off for cheap on the market.

Oh and they pay less than 1.5% taxes, usually, if they even pay taxes.
Interesting, I wonder how that would compare to recirculating water through the coffee grounds through a filter.

It does say the ultrasound generates 'micro-jets with enough force to pit and fracture the coffee grounds', so I assume that the ultrasound would work better?

There also seems research in using ultrasound in artificial ageing of whisky/spirits.
Unfortunately it does not work. Simply exists for it’s form, not its function.

yes, it is beautiful
> $200 flat screen tvs make it easier to live life.

From what I've been reading, those cheap TV's won't last more than 3 years. So those poor people will end up spending more on TV's than if they bought an old-style expensive TV. Same thing with shoes, rent, cars, etc.
you can use akash gpu's on brev.dev
It makes no sense to look at number of flights for a comparison. You need to look at passenger miles.
(tongue in cheek) isn't that what boeing did with the FAA?
"Per trip" is an utterly meaningless way of looking at the data. Some car trips last ten minutes and a 10 or 12 hour flight isn't uncommon. You know for a fact that it's more dangerous to drive from NYC to Miami than it is to drive to the grocery store and back, so why would you use a meaningless statistic like this?

I would say the most sensible is "per passenger hour", followed by "per passenger mile", since in some cases one might be choosing between driving somewhere and flying there.

By both of these metrics, airplanes are much safer than cars.
FYI: After I created an account, I don't seem to be allowed to create the 1st site. I just get the "upgrade to create more" prompt.

This looks cool though!
> It does not make a lot of sense for homes to sell for so much more then they can rent for.

Isn't rent also remarkably high in any areas where there's decent levels of employment?

You can either rent a house, or rent the money to buy one. Usually the price of renting a house is the price of renting the money plus a margin for maintenance and profit.

But since homeownership is pretty much the only situation in which normal people can make a huge leveraged investment - you can't borrow $100k to invest in stocks, they won't let you - it's a very advantageous form of investment.

The only way I can see this changing is the forever renters starting to acquire enough political power to overrule anti-building NIMBYs. Birth rates aren't falling fast enough to reduce demand to meet supply.
Would this work?

https://github.com/magico13/ha-emporia-vue

You can do mains only or every circuit

https://shop.emporiaenergy.com/collections/in-panel-energy-m...
At the center of the case is the question of how 1/0 Capital, his fund that seeded Better.com, got money--and whether it was siphoned away from his past loan origination business with former business partner Raza Khan. Looks like he's entangled in a number of legal cases where many who trusted him with funds are wondering where money went...
It's really just a matter of mindset -- Many things go faster if you chuck them into a microwave or a sonicator :) I'm definitely going to try this out with cold brew in a cheapie bath sonicator. The thing here is like a big ass probe sonicator butted up against an espresso portafilter which is probably a bit louder than a loud steamer
> I can only speak for myself, but I don't enjoy being criticized and I don't enjoy being wrong.

That's actually a huge problem because it can veer onto intellectual dishonesty and being combative for nothing.
Instead, one should be trying to look for the right/best path forward, regardless of what they thought.
Should be easy to discard erroneous ideas.

The goal is not to be right. It's to find what's right.
I don't think Facebook knows how to use them, as it typically hides most of the comments under a thread and picks out a couple irrelevant ones without their context.
Looks like Shinji Mikami left Tango before he had to watch it get shut down.
Quick hack: just replace youtube.com with appblit.com to see the transcript of any YouTube video.

Example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AaNT7XO41I
https://www.appblit.com/watch?v=0AaNT7XO41I
It was sold as being cheaper. Then as capex vs opex. Now as convenient.
The population of the US grew by 0.4% last year, not an amount I would describe as "rapid".
If one is working from a non trusted network (idk, a coffee shop), isn't that true?
Free as in “free beer”. You don’t own the rights to the beer, you don’t have the ingredient list, but it costs no money
First thing to remember is C++ is very much a "live" language going through enhancements and the majority of the hardcore engineering still happens in C++ (real-time, AI, Machine Learning, High Performance Computing, CUDA etc..). There is a lot of advocacy by Rust devotees who somehow think C++ is "legacy" or whatever. Not true at all.

With that, look at Stroustup's latest book, it's a good introduction to programming using C++ --- Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ 3rd Edition. Takes you all the way to C++23 from the creator of the language.

C++ Crash Course: A Fast-Paced Introduction by Josh Lospinoso is a very fun book and will give you a through grounding in working with C++ in a professional setting. However, it stops at C++17 and while the second edition is in the works, the first edition will take you far.
It's not so hard to do `import notrand "math/rand"` which helps avoid mistakes in the mean time.
You hang out with me? You get free beer.
Just updated the app so export to PDF now shows your highlights colored.
Kubrick movies left a big impact on me, whatever he did it seems to have worked. But I also think he was a bully who it was very hard and damaging to work with.
No, not high end by any means, but when running some basic business software (think rudimentary CRM, inventory management and spread sheets), quite possibly written in BASIC, chances are the floppy disks, daisy wheel printer and (few) attached 9600bps terminals would be the bottleneck.

Those things didn't compete with a Cray, they competed with a filing cabinet, desk top calculator and typewriter.
I find a simple realignment would solve a lot of this interview angst: Interviewers seem to interview on the premise that they need to find out what the candidate can't do. But this is not useful. I can tell you what they can't do. To a first approximation, the answer is "everything". I am an experienced and skillful developer, yadda yadda yadda, and I've never touched React, have no game development experience, have never written kernel code, haven't touched matrices since school, have only dabbled in embedded development as a hobbiest, etc. etc. etc. Make a list of all the things I can't do and I look like an idiot. The list of possible things is too long.

The goal of an interview is to find out what the candidate can do.

If you interview someone, and they "fail all the questions we asked", it is not the candidate who has failed... the interviewer has failed. You ran an entire interview and all you know is what the candidate can't do. You have learned virtually nothing. The questions must be adjusted to what the candidate can do. Only for the absolute worst candidates should you ever exit an interview saying they failed at everything. (Sadly, such candidates do exist. For instance, consider the recent stories about AI fraud. If your level of programming skill is "I have ChatGPT", I'm going to have a hard time scoping a question down to you.)

If I had asked this question in an interview, or a related one, I would have stepped the problem down until the candidate could pick it up. (Odds are I'd have started lower and worked my way up anyhow.) If the candidate then sort of finds their footing and once going can start folding in the other requirements as we go, great. Who sits down and designs a system for all twelve adjectives ("reliable", "concurrent", "redundant", "runs on a Z80") we want anyhow? One can not help but design a system one adjective at a time, with the others only kept in mind to make sure we don't back into a corner. There's no reason not to interview that way too. (And I tell the candidate this is what we're going to do, so hopefully they don't feel like I'm out to get them or experience requirements whiplash without knowing why I'm doing this.)
I hear Jia Tan is available if an experienced maintainer is needed.
I believe Tauri is trying to make that ideal of cross-platform webview happen with Servo. Thanks to NLNet for funding the Servo work.

https://servo.org/blog/2024/01/19/embedding-update/
Most homeowners have a mortgage, and that doesn’t go down when the house price goes down. This can result in negative equity and it traps people in their current property until they can pay off the original debt.
This is incredibly cool and I want to go build one, though it feels like that cutaway model of injecting the ultrasound from the side would lead to very uneven extraction.

I also chuckled at graf about doubling the caffeine content, as if that's necessarily a good thing =).

Those cheap HC-SR04 ultrasonic modules output at 40kHz, so maybe this is home-brewable.
Beethoven's hair contained toxic levels of lead
The wealth effect of "number go up" is really powerful.
Blender wasn't originally designed to be used for CAD type applications. It's possible of course, but you're likely better off with something specifically meant for precision CAD models. Specifically for 3d printing, I don't think blender is ideal.

I think most programmers like OpenSCAD - what better way to make parametric CAD models than by writing code?
If this avoids save_and_open_screenshot loops, it will be very valuable for reducing debug grind. Will take a look.
Arkane Austin only made Redfall since Prey, the rest were Arkane Lyon (which didn't close). Allegedly (based on some articles) Redfall started as a pure singleplayer game ala Prey 2017 (and their older titles) but Zenimax and Bethesda wanted to add multiplayer and Games-as-a-service elements because they thought it'd increase the company's value back when they were looking for buyers

Essentially the studio was forced to make a game very different from what they were known for (not just as Arkane but even people who worked there) and wanted to make for reasons outside the game's own merits, which in turn introduced a lot of production issues (they did not have the staff or know-how and had to expand in size) and predictably ended up a mess.